[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2535 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2535

     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act to prohibit the President from considering insurance as 
    a duplication of benefits for certain assistance under such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 2025

 Ms. Brownley (for herself and Ms. Chu) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act to prohibit the President from considering insurance as 
    a duplication of benefits for certain assistance under such Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``FEMA Temporary Housing Assistance 
Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. DUPLICATION OF BENEFITS CLARIFICATION.

    Section 408(c)(1) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5174(c)(1)) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
                    ``(C) Duplication of benefits.--In determining 
                eligibility for temporary housing assistance under this 
                subsection, the President may not consider insurance a 
                duplication of benefits for the purpose of applying 
                section 312 of this Act.''.
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